From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
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Creating a set for shooting bugs
From the course: Photography 101: Shooting Macros and Close-Ups
Creating a set for shooting bugs
Shooting Macro Photography outside can be loads of fun. There's so many cool things just even in your own backyard to shoot. But sometimes shooting outdoors can literally be a pain in the back. If you're crawling around on the ground and trying to get just that right shot and you're bending over all the time, it can be a bit painful. Plus, you have all kinds of challenges outdoors like wind, unpredictable weather, inconsistent lighting. And all of these things that are part of nature, that are wonderful, you can control if you bring your set indoors. So what we're talking about here is how to create a cool outdoor set. Indoors, you can just build this in your house just with a couple of pieces that you've collected from your yard or local parks or whatever it may be. So, what we've got here is a set up of a couple of cool kind of reddish color rocks, this big flag stone piece that we've dug out of the sidewalk, and a piece of driftwood and a cactus flower. It hurt a little bit picking…
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